Asus kicked off its Computex 2014 appearance in Taipei with a storm of new products including notebooks, motherboards and gaming peripherals. A new graphics card got the most attention. The new Asus Republic of Gamers Ares III which was both teased on the show floor as well as online. The Asus ROG Ares III will be the newest limited edition graphics card from Asus which is based on two Hawaii XT GPUs, at least as far as we know so far.

Although Asus did not shed much details regarding the actual specifications of the upcoming Ares III graphics card, it did release a couple of pictures as well as note that this will be a Limited Edition graphics card with hand-picked R9 290X GPUs. Asus has also decided to change the AMD's reference closed-loop liquid cooler with the custom full-cover block from EK Water Blocks, a company with a good standing in the liquid cooling market. The block itself will feature hand-carved details making the upcoming ROG Ares III graphics card quite a unique and impressive looking graphics card.

As noted, Asus is still keeping all the juicy details under wraps but we did hear that there is a working sample at the show and that Asus might show it, so we might see a bit more information regarding it. According to Asus, the ROG Ares III is expected to launch in Q3 2014.

According to a fresh rumor coming from Chinese VR-Zone, Asus is working on a custom built dual-GPU Hawaii XT based ROG ARES III graphics card which should be ready in time for Computex 2014.

In case you missed them before, Asus launches custom dual-GPU graphics cards under the Mars and Ares names depending on whether they are based on Nvidia or AMD GPUs. Although these are usually somewhat slower than Crossfire or SLI solutions, they do have their own advantages as well.

According to Chinese VR-Zone, Asus is preparing the ROG ARES III graphics card which should be based on two fully enabled Hawaii XT GPUs. This means that we will be looking at a graphics card which will pack a total of 5632 Stream Processors, 352 TMUs and 128 ROPs, since the single Hawaii XT GPU feature 2816 Stream processors, 176 TMUs and 64 ROPs. It also could mean that the new ARES III will have a total of 8GB of GDDR5 memory (4GB per GPU) paired up with a dual 512-bit memory interface.

There have already been some rumors regarding AMD's reference dual-GPU graphics card based on two Hawaii GPUs, codename Vesuvius, which is expected in Q2 2014. Unfortunately, other than the codename, there have not been any solid information regarding the actual specifications of that card.

According to the same report, the Asus ROG ARES III will feature a custom PCB which is quite similar to the ROG ARES II graphics card which featured two Tahiti GPUs.